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Whatis

Mans

--help

Pinfo

Sosreport

/usr/share/doc

To read a document using the man command

[[email protected] xx]# man Mans

1 executable programs or shell commands user commands (executable commands and shell programs)

2 system calls (functions provided by the kernel) systems call (kernel routines called from user space)

3 Librarycalls (functions within program libraries) library functions (provided by programs)

4 special files (usually found In/dev) special documents (such as device files)

5 Files formats and conventions eg/etc/passwd file format (user many profiles and structures)

6 games

7 miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), E.g.man (7), Groff (7)

conventions, standards and other (protocols, file systems)

8 system administration commands (usually only for root) systems administration and privileged commands (maintenance tasks)

9 Kernel Routines [Non standard]linux kernel API (kernel call)

SPACEBAR to scroll forward (down) one screen

PageDown scroll forward (down) one screen

PageUp Scroll Backward (UP) one screen

DOWN ARROW key to scroll forward (down) one line

Up ARROW key to scroll backward (UP) one line

D roll Forward (down) half the screen

U scroll Backward (UP) half a screen

/string searching forward string in the man page

N Search Down

N Search Up

G Go to the beginning of the man page

G go to the end of the man page

Q Exit Man

Keyword search

Man–k

[Email protected] ~]$ man-k passwd

CHPASSWD (8)-Batch update password

GPASSWD (1)-Administrator/etc/group and/etc/gshadow

Fgetpwent_r (3)-Get passwd file entry reentrantly

Getpwent_r (3)-Get passwd file entry reentrantly

GRUB2-MKPASSWD-PBKDF2 (1)-Generate aPBKDF2 password hash.

LPASSWD (1)-Change group or user password

LPPASSWD (1)-Add, change, or delete digestpasswords.

Pam_localuser (8)-Require users to be listed IN/ETC/PASSWD

passwd (1)-Update user ' s Authenticationtokens

SSLPASSWD (1SSL)-Compute password hashes

passwd (5)-Password file

Passwd2des (3)-RFS password encryption

Pwhistory_helper (8)-helper binary thattransfers password hashes from pass ...

SASLPASSWD2 (8)-Set a user ' s SASL password

SMBPASSWD (5)-The Samba encrypted password file

USERPASSWD (1)-A graphical tool to allow users tochange their passwo ...

VNCPASSWD (1)-Change the VNC password

Create a formatted output file for passwd manpage

[Email protected] xx]# RM-RF passwd.ps

[Email protected] xx]# man-t passwd>passwd.ps

[[email protected] xx]# ls

Passwd.ps

[[Email protected] xx]# file passwd.ps

Passwd.ps:PostScript Document Textconforming DSC level 3.0

[email protected] doc]$ Firefox file:///usr/share/doc

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